Home Schooling in America Grows
Home schooling is growing in America. About three percent of children today are estimated to be home-schooled and that number is growing. ...
Education
Are Americans “Deeply Ignorant” Regarding Religion?
What do most Americans know about various world religions? According to a recent study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,...
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School District Pays for Strip Search for Marijuana
A New Hampshire school district agreed to pay $2,500 to a female former student who was forced to partially undress in front of...
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Edwin Newman, Defender of Good English, Dead at 91
When Edwin Newman published his phenomenal bestseller Strictly Speaking, a blurb on the back cover quoted a reviewer who described the erudite author...
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Teach for America — Another Bad Idea
In New Jersey, a program called “Teach for America” is being tested as a tool for addressing the manifest failure of public schools...
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A Small Victory for Colorblindness
For over 30 years the middle school in Nettleton, Mississippi, had classified students who wished to run in student elections by race. One...
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Does Language Shape Our Thoughts?
The linguistic relativity principle is back in vogue, according to linguist Guy Deutscher of the University of Manchester, writing for the New York...
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Welcome Back to School; Here’s Your Student REAL ID Card
In what reads like a passage from George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the government public school district for New...
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New York Regents Exams Favor Islam
This week, the New York Post exposed the religious bias found within the New York State Regents exams. According to the Post, “State...
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Teacher Funding Bill Hurts Businesses and the Poor
President Obama has signed into law an emergency appropriations measure intended to provide funds to stop teacher layoffs and to provide aid to...
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Montana School System Wants Sex Education for Kindergarten
Jeff Laszloffy, president of the Montana Family Council, has expressed outrage at a plan being considered by the Helena Public School System to...
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Pro-Life Group Forcing Americans to “Face the Truth”
Since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision gave women a “choice,” abortion has been one of the major issues dividing “liberal”...
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The End of the Library with Books?
The July 4 news story in the Boston Globe described a scene that will be played out in virtually every school and community...
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Grade Inflation in American Education
The Boston Globe reported July 4 that students have been studying less in high school and college compared with past decades. “In survey...
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Provincetown Revising Condoms-for-schoolchildren Policy?
The Massachusetts Cape Cod town of Provincetown will take a second look at a policy the school board adopted back in May that...
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